In poker, there are 4 different styles of player (tight/loose) + (passive/aggressive). In the free poker and online nanostakes (.02/.05 blinds), each of these player types make a few key mistakes.

In this free poker online lesson we’ll look at how to exploit the Tight-Aggressive style player.

Methods to defeat the Tight-passive (TP) “rock”

The Tigght Passive is a common player who you will meet a lot in micro stakes games.

They often limp in as opposed to raising, and while they call as opposed to 3betting (reraising preflop) they don’t play very many hands as a standard.

They’ll rarely raise you postflop without a true nut hand (think sets or better, usually) and won’t call down without hitting a strong piece of the board (typically top pair).

This is good news for you as it makes them easy to play against.

Their ranges are typically limited to pocket pairs and high card hands (KQ, AJ+ for example), so a ton of middling flops (T84r for example) can be cbet basically 100% as we’ll get folds a ton of the time. We should basically be cbetting flops very wide and shutting down on turn/river if called on flop without a good reason for continuing.

If we have a strong top pair or better, we should continue betting down after the flop. Check down until you improve and then bet with your draws, although you will rarely get value in those spots.

They are east to play, remember that they only raisxe with premium hands and fold too much so raise and bet a lot of flops to take their money.

Do always remember that there are levels of player types. Some styles share traits with the most closely related group, TAGs with LAG bits, TPs that lean toward LPs and so on, so keep your wits about you and adjust your play per opponents using player style models as a tool to guide observation and decision making.

Learning to recognize player types and the degree to which a player fits a type isn’t easy.

You need to practice your game plenty though for some of you it will come faster than others. If you’re new to poker do not risk much or even any cash as you learn. Start of with the lowest stakes games or with free online poker games and work up from there.

For a full version of this article with all 4 player types covered and some advanced postflop play tips see the free online poker site blog at NoPayPOKER.

Basically, a poker bet is a declaration that either:

A) You have a strong hand and will put money on it. Or, B) You have a weak hand and will fold if you are forced to wager on it.

Poker theory says that players should bet if they have a strong hand. Players who don’t have good hands are supposed to fold. Of course, if it was this simple, there would be no need for this article and most players play contrary to this idea, attempting to be a cunning player.

But don’t try to be too clever when you still learning poker. Your betting strategy should be built upon this simple idea, but you must know when to stray and bet in situations when you otherwise wouldn’t.

Here are some poker bet tactics you should start learning in order to improve your game:

Stealing Blinds
When you are in the dealer’s position, and only you and the blinds remain in the game, a raise is often called “blind-stealing”. This is because the blinds may fold, whereas if you didn’t raise but simply called, the blinds would simply check. It is an easy way to make a quick win but is not a big cash winning play. It’s more of a way to end the game fast and have a new hand dealt with more players.

The steal-raise
A Steal Raise is where you’re last to act and the other players have all checked to you, you bet to limit the number of players or scoop the pot. Do not use it all the time else good players will notice and check raise against your (probably) weak hand. The Steal Raise is good when you have an good draw hand like a nut flush draw. Players tend to check to the raiser. Should you draw to your hand, you get a bigger pot to win. If you do not you can choose to check and hope the river card completes your hand.

The check-raise
This is where you check to an opponent with the aim of getting them to bet so that you can raise them back. Your hope to give them a false sense of security so you increase the pot size by your raise.

The opener
Reckless and often done by people who bluff. It is when the first player raises and so forces all other players to call 2 bets at once. Its intention is to limit the number of players. Essentially it is a reverse steal-raise. It will force a lot of folds but those left in are going to be aggressive or have a strong hand. The Opener is also known as betting for information. This type of bet is best used when there are not many players in the hand.

Squeezing
Squeezing is a tactic only used in a short-handed game. It’s betting when you have a good hand currently, and you suspect another player or players may be on a draw. You may, for example, have a top pair with best kicker. Most likely they will not make their draw. So your aim is to reduce their pot odds.

The above examples are really just examples of bets. If you are playing no limit or pot limit hold em, the whole thinking behind betting changes.

When you’re dealt Aces, Kings, or AK suited, you can raise and even re-raise before the flop, no matter your position.

A pair of queens or jacks you have to be a bit more careful with, but the chances are still huge that you are top hand before the flop. Raise and drive out the draw hands, if there are no raises in front of you.

If you have good cards such as paint suited, aim to raise from mid or late position if nobody else has raised before you. If you raise in middle position and someone in late position re-raises, be careful.

If they’re a strong player they probably have you beat in card strength unless they’re bluffing to try and take the blinds and antes.

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Before we get into that we must understand the term “hand range” which means “the range of hands it’s possible for my opponent to have”.

Understanding ranges is the most important SKILL a poker player has.

Lets say an opposing player is super tight and make a big reraise preflop. An example range for them to have is (QQ,KK,AA). You know they must have one of these hands, though not which one exactly.

When writing a range, though, don’t write out every possible hand in the range. QQ, KK, AA we shorten to QQ+, i.e., pocket pairs QQ and higher.

KT, KJ, KQ offsuit would be written KTo+ to mean offsuit king KT or better. Offsuit is designated “o” and suited with an “s”, so, K8o+ is any offsuit king K8 or above.

Playable hole cards

First there are 3 variables to consider

1) What has happened before your turn
2) Our table position
3) Our opponents’ tendencies

Number 1 is self explanatory. For example, you fold your pocket 9s if there has been a raise, 3 bet or 4 bet before your go. Basically just understand that when your opponents open you need to be tighter.

Table Position –
The closer to the butotn you are the wider your options for opening..

1) There is a lower chance of other players getting a playable hand and better chance of folds as there are fewer players left to act after you.

2) You get position on your opponents postflop. You have much more information that you can act on when you’re on the button as they have to act before you and so supply you with info. You get to see their reaction to the flop if they play it while they do not know anything about you.

Opponents’ habits examples –
> If the big blind is going allin every hand, don’t open wide from the button as you’ll have to fold to his shove with weaker holdings.
> Loosen up if the players still to act are tight, it gives you a better chance of stealing the blinds.

If the players behind us are loose and aggressive, make 2 adjustments.
> Tighten up.
> Play more high card hands and less suited connector hands.

Against loose aggressive opponents you can play hands like KJo, flop top pair, and move All in OK. But with lesser hands such as 87s if you miss and continue bet the flop asggression may result and few folds. So high-card hands go up in value while middle connectors go down.

Of course, some hands we’ll almost always play (JJ+, AQ+ for example). Some hands we’ll never play like 52o, but for tons of others the answer is “it depends on the situation”.

Generally:
- Play tight early position, looser late position
- Preflop, play looser against tight players and tighter against loose.
- Preflop play looser against passive players and tighter against aggressive.
- Play tighter if there has been action before you
- Almost always play premiums, almost never play trash

Here are some examples to illustrate.

- UTG (1st position) 10 hand example range: (TT+, AQo+, AJs+)
- Button range vs tight blinds: (22+, A2o+, A2s+, K6o+, K5s+, Q9o+, Q8s+, JTo, JTs, T9s, 98s, 87s, 76s)
- Button range vs loose blinds: (22+, A7o+, A2s+, K8o+, K8s+, QTo+, Q9s+, JTs)
- Button range readless: (22+, A7o+, A2s+, K8o+, K7s+, Q9o+, Q9s+, JTs, T9s, 98s)

Limping

When should we limp preflop? The answer is almost never, apart from:

> When against a loose passive opponent with a marginal hand.

> A “Limpede” which is more commonplace, in free online poker games especially. Where several players limp preflop (limp+stampede = limpede!)

Join “limpedes” when you have suited connectors or low pocket pairs, as you have the chance to flop a strong hand, flush, straight, combo draw or set very cheap. Your only goal is to flop a very strong hand – if you don’t you should give up and check/fold the flop.

As so much of this is “it depends you should practice on free online poker sites where you can change around your ranges and see what works and what doesn’t, how you should adjust in certain spots, etc. as you won’t lose any money doing so.

So experiment away! For a much more in depth version of this article, see the full lesson on the NoPayPOKER free poker training blog

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On the web forums on poker exist. You can study and hang out on such discussion boards to know the gross and subtle points from the game. Not merely that, you can try to type your own group of new learners like yourself and perform group studying in the game. That would make the process much more interesting than only reading in isolation. Additionally it’ll give you some genuine practice.

And yet another choice would be to discover the game by studying books. There are some books available on this topic covering the materials in particulars. You can choose to choose up among the reputed books and read it very carefully. In the event you observe true poker games and tie back with what you might have been reading in your book then that can make the learning a lot less difficult and far more solid.

To really realize how to play poker, you would want to discover the cards and digest what makes a winning combination. You have to best that up with an understanding with the card combinations and how do these combinations stack up against each other. And continue to be observant and add the expertise that you select up from observing the much better gamers of the game. All of this really should make you an enhanced player from the game of poker.

Card pairs 2/2 through to 9/9 are what we define as low pocket pairs and they will, believe it or not (and you will believe by the end of this article) win you more money long term than any other pocket cards.

More than pocket A/A, pocket K/K, pocket Q/Q? Surely not possible I hear you cry! It is, they will.

In addition to being superb against good players they are also great for destroying those annoying “all in all the time” donk players.

Why Are Low Pockets So Good?

You have about a 6% chance of being dealt a pocket pair of any type. So on average you’ll get a pocket pair once every 16 or 17 hands.

1) When you get a pocket pair you then have about a 1 in 8 chance of hitting a set (three of a kind) on the flop.

2) So 6% followed by 1 in 8 comes to you having a post set flop once per 133 hands. On a 10 player table that equates to one time about every 13 small blind/big blind bets you deposit into.

3) In terms of playability you can play low pockets from all table positions with some provisos, namely, from Early only at a cost not more than the Big Blind, not more than 2x the BB from Middle and 3x the BB in Late Position.

4) In addition when you have them you should not raise the big blind pre flop.

5) Also if you limp in from Early Position, or if you have called a 2x BB from Middle Position, and there has been a raise to 3x the BB, and there are five plus players left in the hand,then you should call 3x the BB bet from Early and Middle position.

Why?
When there are five plus players left there is a higher probability the flop will show 2 or 3 low cards.

This is because it’s likely that the players left in the hand have 1 or more paint cards.

Then the set we get becomes powerful. Especially if it is a set of 2′s, 3′s, 4′s, 5′s, 6′s, 7′s, 8′s, or 9′s. Indeed, Aces to 10s are heavy weapons but with the lower pairs you have a better chance to do evil to your opponents.

The reason is that many players, especially poor ones, do not fear low cards that hit the board as part of the flop.

Let’s use a sample hand illustrate low pocket power.
You are in Late Position and have pocket 5c/5h. There is a ‘bad’ player with Jh/7c and a ‘good’ player with Ad/Qd.

The ‘good’ player raises 3x the big blind, the ‘bad’ player calls, you call, and everyone else at the table folds. The flop hits the board, and it contains Ah/Jd/5s; giving you a set of Fives. The ‘good’ player, again bets 3x the big blind.

The ‘bad’ player, raises by a factor of three; crazy as he’s holding the middle pair, and the ‘good’ player has betted into the flopped Ace. You call as does the good player.

Now it is the Turn and the card is a 7d. It gives the ‘good’ player a nut flush draw (Ad/Qd/Jd/7d), and he holds the high board pair (Ad/Ah). It gives the ‘bad’ player two pairs (Jacks over Sevens). You have your set of 5c,5h,5s.

Now are you worried that the river will bring a card that fills the flush or a Jack or a Seven?

But do not be. Left in the deck are 9 flush maker cards and 4 full house maker, 13 in all minus the last 5. the last 5 is a flush maker but will also make you quad 5′s. Thus, there are 12 cards that would cause you to lose, and 34 cards that will bring you the pot. You’re about a 3 to 1 favorite to win.

The river helps no one. The bad player moves all in, you call and take the pot.

So what made this low pocket pair so powerful?
Simple, the set of 5′s was hidden and this is always the case when low pocket pairs are turned into sets by the flop.

In addition nobody could get a read on these cards. And as you slow play it so that both good and bad opponents cannot identify the powerful set the flop created.

The ‘low pocket pair strategy’ is used all pro poker players yet is little known. After all low pocket pairs win more money at a poker table than any other two cards so why shout about it!

So as a next step, go and practice low pocket pairs strategy on free poker online sites and then move on to low stakes and make money!

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As a result this series of articles is going to focus on reviewing the best poker strategy books we can find.

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The framework is to provide the essential information on the book, a outline of the content and then summarised evaluations we’ve located on both the pros and cons of the book.

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Title – Harrington on Online Cash Games; 6-Max No-Limit Hold ‘em
* Author(s) – Dan Harrington and Bill Robertie
* This edition published – June 2010
* Pages – 530

Synopsis –
Dan Harrington tells you the important ideas and techniques which will let you excel at on-line poker. Poker online is a environment, as any of you who also play live games know, which is different in a few crucial ways from the world of casino games.

Theme areas dealt with include:
* How to deal with sizes of stack.
* Playing at six max tables.
* Combating high aggression.
* And, in contrast to most on-line poker books, the way you use poker databases and heads up displays (HUDs) to get detailed and useable information on how the other players play.

Plus, there are detailed strategies for micro and small stakes preflop and post-flop play.

We really rate this book for all poker online players who play money games online but do not win as much as they’re like (most of us in other words!) Plus it’s the perfect bible for free online poker players looking to make the move and live card room game players looking to go online who have not played online much before.

If you are brand new to poker or just starting out then we do urge you to start off on a free online poker site first to learn game basics before risking real cash. Yes, you can get the book and read it as you learn to play just don’t risk your real money yet please!

Positive review comments –
* Don’t Purchase this guide – I don’t want you getting any better! I strongly recommend this book to any online player who is not my opposition.
* Specially talks about a number of important statistics that can be utilized to take advantage of patterns in your oppositions pre and postflop behaviors.
* Several truly good ideas on note-taking.
* He gives you the know how to analyze your oppositions play and manipulate them if they’re poor, or if they’re strong.
* I was amazed by this book. Each of his books are good, but this particular one really gets into details concerning the types of games and scenarios you will run into.
* It’s a fantastic book and a must for any online player. You can utilize the know how in the book for full ring game too. Excellent book.

Cons –
Almost nothing significant seen apart from one nuts naysayer type that would likely say night was day just to be different.

Title – The Full Tilt Poker Strategy Guide: Tournament Edition
* Author(s) – Andy Bloch, Richard Brodie, Chris Ferguson and Ted Forrest
* This edition published – June 2007
* Pages – 448

Synopsis –
Full Tilt will be dead and buried now nevertheless the information from their team professionals who collaborated to write this book remains great for a lot of on-line poker players.

Pros –
* I was worried that this would be a fast buck job aiming to cash in on the popularity of internet poker and that the writers would push out basic low value material. Not so I’m happy to report. There is material in this that is superb.
* Ferguson’s section is sort of a small instruction lesson with him.
* This will likely become a “must have” book for poker tournament players.
* I hate to have to recommend this. It simply gives away way too many trade secrets.
* Novices and players who have played for less than 5 years could play 10 more years and never absorb this much understanding.

Cons –
* Separated into several chapters with each different from the previous and written by another player. As such it is a bit all over the place.
* Some have said it is little use for online as on-line poker is all rigged…

That’s number one of our free online poker education best poker strategy books review, look out for the next one that will have some more recommendations of resources that, while not utterly free poker have been proven to pay for themselves in short order.

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